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The Color Purple by Alice Walker: A Research Guide Databases & Electronic Journals
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MasterFILE Premier: An EBSCOhost® database primarily designed as a general reference tool for public libraries, this database provides full-text articles from reference sources including magazines, books, biographies, primary documents, photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. Relevant journals in this database: African American Review American Libraries Black Issues Book Review Ebony Essence Library Journal Literary Cavalcade Newsweek Novelist: An electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers to find new authors or titles they wish to read. Searchable by title, author, plot description, or subject and keyword, Novelist contains reviews and descriptions for 90,000+ best-seller, professional and trade books published since 1994, as well as all adult fiction reviewed in Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus since 1996. It also provides links to author home pages and other fiction-related web sites. Sociological Collection: An EBSCOhost® database indexing full-text articles from 500+ scholarly/peer-reviewed journals back to 1975 in all areas of sociology including social behavior, relationships and social structure. Updated daily. Relevant journals in this database: Antioch Review College Student Journal Feminist Studies Midwest Quarterly New Statesman & Society Women's Studies
Webliography (Internet Resources):
Annina’s Alice Walker Page http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/ This page contains a short biographical sketch of Alice Walker along with an extensive list of links to sites containing interviews, articles, reviews, and essays about her work.
An Interview with Alice Walker http://www.seeingblack.com/2003/x022803/walker.shtml In this interview, the author discusses her book as well as the process of making the book into a film.
New Found Growth (a web-site on The Color Purple) http://homepage.ntlworld.com/matt_kane/index.htm This site was created for college students reading the novel by a professor in York, England. It contains analyses of themes, symbols, and relationships in the novel. (Note: there is a links section, but many of the links are no longer functioning.)
Some Letters Went to God http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/04/specials/walker-color.html A review of the novel published in the New York Times Review of Books in 1982. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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